Breaking complex chips into smaller pieces allows for much more customization, particularly for domain-specific applications, ...

DeepSeek leverages algorithms such as Mixture of Experts (MoE), which demand a lot of memory bandwidth and produce large amounts of temporary output token, which need to be stored in memory and read ...

New connectivity standard brings performance improvements and a bunch of new features, but it may take years before they are ...

Configurability causes an explosion in verification complexity, but the upside is verification engineers are gaining in ...

Predictions should not reflect innovation or breakthroughs. They should be based on pain. At this point everyone has made ...

Avoid power leaks, power-ground DC paths, and missing level shifters with symbolic simulation. Nothing is worse for a design ...

Scalable Low-Cost CXL Memory Pooling” was published by researchers at University of Washington, Microsoft Azure and Columbia ...

A new technical paper titled “Controlling Speckle Contrast Using Existing Lithographic Scanner Knobs to Explore the Impact on ...

Computational power has become the modern world’s most precious resource.

Packet-based data transfer mechanisms enable higher bandwidth, better routing optimization, and reduced congestion.

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations use repeated random sampling to relate process variations to circuit performance and functionality, thus determining how they impact yield. However, for comprehensive ...

The increasing complexity of integrated circuit (IC) designs is straining our traditional design rule checking (DRC) methods. The iterative “construct by correction” approach that worked well for ...